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‖ Sèvres, a.|sɛːvr|
Forms: 8 Sève, Seve, 8–9 Sèvre, Sevre, 9– Sèvres.
[The name of a town in France, near Paris.]
The designation of a costly porcelain made at Sèvres.
1764Ld. Holland in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1843) I. 287 We saw the china you speak of at Poiriers,..; it is Sevre china. 1782H. Walpole Let. to T. Walpole 6 Sept., A cup and saucer of the Sève china. 1789A. Young Trav. France (1892) 101 A table formed of Seve porcelain. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Sutherl. I. 81 A salver of Sèvre coffee-cups. Ibid., Man of Many Fr. I. 294 Etruscan vases, and Sèvres tables. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xxxii, The Benvenuto Cellini carvings and the Sèvres porcelain. 1908R. Bagot A. Cuthbert xxi. 254 A basket of beautiful old Sèvres china.
absol.1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xxxii, The Sèvres and bronze, the buhl and ormolu. 1870‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage 40 The breakfast, in dainty Sèvres and silver. |